About
TheArtist
Artist and designer, working in Nigeria between flat saturated grounds and coloured pencil on paper.
Contemporary African Artist
02 / The Artist
Nigeria / 2026
Meet the Artist
Adetayo
Studios
Adetayo StudiosEst. 2014

Untitled (Breakthrough), digital drawing
Digital Scribble
Biography
The joy behind
the crown
Adetayo works two ways that have almost nothing in common. One is digital, drawn fast in scribble over flat fields of violet, red and black. The other is coloured pencil on paper, layered over weeks until the tooth of the sheet stops showing.
The halo keeps coming back in the digital work. Worn, unwound, doubled, and once gripped in a fist. The pencil portraits stay with a single person, close in, and spend colour on two or three things at most.
The digital drawings go out as signed archival prints. The pencil works are one of one on paper, signed on the reverse. Both are sold by enquiry.
Currently obsessed with
- Halos
- Flat saturated grounds
- Scribble density
- Graphite portraits
- Rationed colour
- Hand-lettered margins
- 10
- Works in the gallery
- 2
- Bodies of practice
- 1 of 1
- Every original